Cybercrime marketplace Genesis Market shut by FBI, international law enforcement
Summary
A seal reading "Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation" is displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington, DC, August 9, 2022. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies on Tuesday seized the domain names for Genesis Market, a cybercrime marketplace which allowed criminals to impersonate customers on websites ranging from Amazon to Fidelity . Genesis was a "big fish," said cybersecurity researcher Matthew Gracey-McMinn at Netacea, and its shutdown was a shot across the bow to other threat actors in the space. The takedown, dubbed Operation Cookie Monster, targeted an online marketplace that allowed users to buy and sell data that would let them impersonate legitimate users of major platforms, including Dropbox , PayPal , Microsoft , Twitter, and a number of cryptocurrency exchanges. Instead, criminals could purchase digital "bots" that employed data that hackers had stolen from users devices, including information from autofill forms, saved login information, and small digital files known as cookies that companies use to track users activity online.
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